Friday, May 26, 2017

In a statement to Talking Points Memo Tamy
Wagner, the general manager of NBC News affiliate KECI, said “We clearly made a mistake, it was unintentional and we apologize,”
Well, it sure didn't sound "unintentional" in New York Magazine's account yesterday of an email sent from KECI to NBC:

New York
has learned that KECI news director Julie Weindel was called by NBC
News to see if KECI would cover the story or had any footage of the
Gianforte incident that NBC News and its affiliates could use. A
well-placed source familiar with communications between KECI news
director Julie Weindel and NBC News says that she was unyielding in her
refusal to share any footage she may have had access to, or run a report
on the incident. According to the source, Weindel said that they
weren’t covering the story, though it was featured in outlets across the
country at the time, explaining, “The person that tweeted [Jacobs] and
was allegedly body slammed is a reporter for a politically biased
publication.” Weindel then added, “You are on your own for this.”

Weindel told New York
that those remarks were made in a private email shortly after the story
broke, and had been “taken out of context between numerous phone calls
as well with NBC.”

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.